Reshoring Opportunities

Why American Manufacturers are Considering Reshoring

For years now we have heard about American manufacturers losing jobs to offshoring suppliers because production costs in the U.S. was simply too high. For the past few years experts have now been reporting that businesses who pursued the offshoring production are now planning to bring the work back home here in the U.S..

According to Boston Consulting Group’s August 2011 report Made in America Again: Why Manufacturing will Return to the US they suggest that “Around three-quarters of the manufacturing that is reshored from China will likely shift to the U.S. in the coming decade”. They also stated that “Conservatively, we expect that around half the appliance manufacturing returning to the U.S. will be done in the U.S..

Benefits of Manufacturing Reshoring

There are several economic reasons as to why reshoring is taking place. But other key reasons for the reshoring movement include:

On June 17, 2014 the US Office of Public Affairs published a press release urging all “U.S. manufacturers to evaluate the benefits of reshoring their operations back to the United States”. For a copy of the press release and to learn more about recent news regarding reshoring:

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